on our broadcast tonight, another nurse infected with ebola. and troubling details emerging from inside that hospital in dallas as nurses across the country warn we're not ready. also, the flight risk. the latest ebola patient flew across the country before being diagnosed while she was running a fever. now the cdc and the airline are scrambling to notify passengers. out of the box, a big surprise from hbo that could be a game-changer for the way millions watch television. and crowning moments, some good news tonight. an uplifting story about a homecoming king and queen and a lesson in friendship in high school. "nightly news" begins now. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams.

good evening. there is now a second patient who contracted ebola in the hospital in dallas. and this one had flown halfway across the country with a fever. like the other patient hospitalized, she is a nurse. amber vincent, age 29, also cared for the man who later died of ebola, thomas duncan. this is amber vincent boarding a cdc aircraft late today en route to emory university hospital in atlanta for treatment. this new incident as you might imagine causing more worries, certainly among the flying public, but also in and around that hospital in dallas where we learn more today about just what went on inside there these past few days. we've got it all covered. and we begin tonight once again with nbc's kate snow at the hospital in dallas. kate, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. vincent is stable but she is ill. as you say, she's being moved now to emory university hospital after being treated here for the past 24 hours. at emory they have specialized

treatment there and staff. it's becoming an all-too familiar scene in dallas, blue barrels for waste, this time outside the apartment of amber vincent, a 29-year-old nurse who lives on her own. vincent had extensive contact with thomas eric duncan. according to the associated press, medical records show she dealt with duncan's bodily fluids for several days after he was admitted on september 28th. twelve days later this past friday she flew from dallas to cleveland to visit her mother and fiancee in the akron area and plan her upcoming wedding. on monday night she flew back to dallas. by early the next morning she went to the hospital. today the head of the cdc says she never should have flown because she treated an ebola patient and because she had a low fever when she boarded the plane monday. >> she should not have traveled on a commercial airline. >> reporter: but a top dallas county official said no one told the nurse not to fly. >> the cdc did not direct presbyterian or anyone else to

restrict travel. >> reporter: the cdc did not tell the hospital to tell their staff not to travel? >> the staff that was under self-monitor. >> reporter: the cdc is now monitoring three people vincent came into contact with before she was isolated, 75 hospital workers are also being checked for symptoms. where are the 75 hospital workers who cared for thomas eric duncan? >> so most of them are on furlough, but some of them who have agreed to do so since they've already been exposed are involved in the treatment of nina and amber. >> reporter: tuesday night a labor group that represents nurses relayed what it said were the grievances of anonymous nurses who say they were involved in treating duncan when he arrived in an ambulance. >> mr. duncan was left for several hours not in isolation in an area where other patients were present. >> reporter: for at least three days they said nurses did not wear full protective gear but flimsy generic gowns. today the cdc director said the use of protective gear varied

inside the hospital. some workers putting on multiple layers thinking that would protect them more. >> in fact, by putting on more layers of gloves or other protective clothing, it becomes much harder to take them off. and the risk of contamination during the process of taking these gloves off gets much higher. >> reporter: a hospital official said today there is no systematic or institutional problem at texas health presbyterian dallas. >> it's clear there was an exposure somewhere, some time in their treatment of mr. duncan. let's be clear we're a hospital that serves this community incredibly well. and we have for nearly a half a century. >> reporter: tonight the city of dallas is creating a place where those 75 hospital workers can go if they want to be monitored away from their own families. meantime, that county judge jenkins also told me that the county and the state, brian, will now enforce some kind of

regulation so that the 75 people cannot get on an airplane or public transportation. brian. >> kate snow starting us off from dallas tonight. kate, thanks. and as we mentioned the second nurse to contract ebola was on a commercial flight halfway across the country the night before she reported her symptoms to the hospital. but she apparently flew while she had a fever. now the cdc says it's moving to restrict health care workers who care for ebola patients from taking public transportation. nbc's tom costello covering that end of the story for us. he's at reagan national airport in washington. >> reporter: brian, the fact that the second nurse knew she had a low-grade fever before boarding the flight has a lot of people concerned and questioning whether it's time for more travel restrictions, even for domestic flights. on the ground in cleveland today after two thorough cleanings, the frontier airlines plane that carried nurse amber vincent from cleveland to dallas monday night, that same plane went through a routine cleaning that

night before returning to cleveland the next day and flying routes to ft. lauderdale and atlanta. today, the cdc director said health care workers who care for ebola patients should not be traveling. >> we will from this moment forward ensure that no other individual who is being monitored for exposure undergoes travel. >> reporter: while the cdc insists the risk to other passengers on board the plane is very low, it is reaching out to all 132 passengers to answer questions and arrange any potential care. in cleveland today, health care authorities insisted the airport and the city are clean. >> we're taking the advance precautionary measures to decontaminate to ensure from an infectious control perspective that we are making sure our public's safe. >> reporter: meanwhile tomorrow four more international airports in addition to jfk, newark, washington dulles and atlanta

will be screening passengers from west africa and looking for signs. a former u.s. surgeon general says it's time for a serious discussion of restricting travel from west africa. >> we need leaders to sit down and say is it worthwhile to consider a travel restrictions now? if so, how do we execute on that? what's the expected benefit? and what are the unintended consequences? >> reporter: much like the homeland security watch list, the cdc has its own do-not-board risk pertaining to people thought to pose a risk to public health. it is enforced by the tsa and only applies to planes, not buses or trains, brian. >> tom costello, national airport in d.c. tonight. tom, thanks. and as all of this plays out in texas nurses all across this country are sounding the alarm saying they're not ready as a profession. they want more hands-on training, more drills, more protective gear so something like what we're watching in dallas doesn't happen again. that story tonight from nbc's peter alexander.

>> reporter: with a second nurse infected in texas, nurses nationwide are showing their frustration and fear over the ebola outbreak. >> i don't think anyone feels safe or confident right now. >> reporter: the common complaint in the conference call hosted by a national nurses group today, america's health care system is ill-prepared. >> preparation is not handing out a color-printed flyer and sending staff e-mails with links to the cdc website. >> we were told that we don't have goggles. they said that they couldn't afford the goggles. >> there are no hazmat suits that we have heard. >> reporter: today, national nurses united sent this letter to president obama demanding he mandate uniform national standards and protocols that all hospitals must follow. some hospitals like this one in alabama are scrambling to ramp up their ebola screening training. and while the latest ebola patient is being transferred to one of the four specialized hospitals equipped to treat the disease, together at best those hospitals can only accommodate ten patients.

nearly 6,000 health care professionals flooded a conference call yesterday hosted by specialists at emory and nebraska. federal officials insist there's plenty of protective gear available, telling nbc news a national shortage is unlikely. but many nurses are reporting that proper equipment has not been provided. and they've had insufficient hands-on training. >> should every nurse in america be trained to be able to care for an ebola patient? >> there needs to be very aggressive training for nurses who will encounter these patients. >> reporter: as one nurse warned today, it's a mess. we need help. peter alexander, nbc news, washington. the white house today expressed its confidence in the director of the cdc, but amid heavy criticism about the government response to this on our soil and questions about who exactly is in charge of the response. president obama today canceled a campaign trip, cleared his schedule, called in his advisors and held an emergency meeting in the cabinet room. our senior white house correspondent chris jansing at

the white house for us tonight. chris, good evening. >> reporter: brian, public concern and pressure had already been mounting. but this latest ebola diagnosis pushed the president to abruptly cancel that political trip to connecticut and new jersey today for this meeting. the administration has faced persistent questions about who's in charge of the ebola response. while this afternoon officials said the buck stops with the president, he promised that the administration is doing everything it can and tried to calm escalating public fears. >> -- to what we've been doing here today is reviewing exactly what we know about what's happened in dallas, and how we're going to make sure that something like this is not repeated and that we are monitoring, supervising, overseeing in a much more aggressive way. >> reporter: white house officials acknowledge there's a new urgency. more than two weeks after the first u.s. patient was diagnosed with ebola. they also admit the latest case makes it clear that something unacceptable happened and warned

that there are likely to be more cases. step one they say, making sure the cdc s.w.a.t. teams are ready to roll any time there is a new diagnosis. brian. >> chris jansing on the north lawn of the white house tonight. chris, thanks. all of these jitters about ebola actually contributed to a wild day on wall street. when you think about it it makes some sort of sense that airline stocks took a big hit in particular. at one point the dow was down 460 points before rebounding some, finishing the day down 173. nasdaq, s&p were down as well. there is good economic news as well, especially gas prices. cnbc's david faber to talk about all of it. the market has been making a lot of news. >> it is. you certainly can't discount ebola. there's certainly fear. fear moves markets and to the extent that's growing, that's having an impact. as well as a practical impact. if we believe people will change their behavior, perhaps they won't travel as much and we've

seen airlines and car rental company stocks come down even before this recent dip in the market. it's not just ebola. there's also continued concerns geopolitically, russia, ukraine, growing battle against isis of course in syria and iraq. and global growth concerns. europe many people believe may move into a recession, brian. that is impacting things. but also the consumer here in the states, our retail report this morning not particularly strong. that's continued concerns about spending. i will end on good news, which is we had a significant drop in interest rates today. a really significant. that's great if you want to go out and get a mortgage. and we've had a virtual collapse in oil prices over the last month. and that of course means cheaper gasoline prices at the pump. >> we'll take our good news anywhere we can get it these days. david, thank you as always for visiting us. the weather system we've been following for days is now churning up along the eastern seaboard. while it's busy in both oceans,

there are two big storms at sea a nation apart. janice huff watching it all in the weather center for us tonight. >> hi, brian. we'll start with the severe weather we've been tracking across the country for the last several days. now that line is moving into the northeast. and it did produce some wind damage just outside of washington, d.c. near alexandria, virginia, some trees down. now the threat of heavy rain and flash flooding for catskills and poconos. for a while gonzalo was a category 4. haven't seen that since 2011. top winds at 125 miles per hour with the storm. it's expected to come very close, if not make a landfall over bermuda some time on friday morning. so we're tracking that very carefully. and of course we'll keep you posted on what's happening there. could have winds of 125 miles an hour over bermuda.

and ana now moving towards the hawaiian islands. it's a tropical storm but expected to become a hurricane on saturday. back to you. >> busy situation everywhere you look. janice huff in the weather center. thanks as always. in hong kong we are witnessing the worst violence yet, and that's saying a lot in the weeks since pro-democracy demonstrations started there. police cracking down hard on protesters now using batons, pepper spray on them in the streets. at one point video appears to show officers carrying a protester off to the side and unleashing a savage beating on him. this is now the image being seen around the world. hong kong police claim they are investigating this one particular incident. we'll take a break. still ahead for us tonight, today's announcement from hbo that they say may have the power to change the way millions of americans watch tv. and later, a heartwarming story to shareith you tonight, it's about a homecoming king and queen who just happen to be the talk of the school and the town. u fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that.

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good people and do good things in this world. >> reporter: maybe that's why when dunwoody students voted for homecoming court this year among the ten boys and ten girls stood gus ashbury and hannah keen. but this gets better. just watch. >> this year's winner is ms. hannah -- [ cheers and applause ] >> mister gus -- [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: their classmates voted them king and queen of the homecoming court. for dunwoody high it was a symbol of pride. back at the coffee shop this week gus and hannah were still glowing. what happened? >> i was nervous. >> reporter: you were nervous? >> exciting. >> reporter: exciting. seems the full school was pulling for them. >> it's big. it's huge. >> reporter: and that's more

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